The Nature of Forgetting

The Lowry, Salford

About the Show

To forget is to be unable to remember. It implies the loss of accessibility to a memory, however it does not necessarily mean that the information is lost. Tom is 55, today. As he dresses for his party, tangled threads of disappearing memories spark him into life and unravel a tale of friendship, love and guilt. Inspired by the work of Tadeusz Kantor, recent neurobiological research and interviews with people living with dementia, The Nature of Forgetting is a powerful, haunting and beautiful theatre piece about the inability to recollect a life and what is left when memory is gone…